Matching user specs for multiple distros

[Collins]

On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:20:22 -0700 Jim Bonnet <jimbo at sysdump.com>
wrote:
> Collins wrote:
> 
> >I keep all my home stuff in a /home partition.  Since most of my
> >partitions are versions of gentoo, the userid's match up and I am
> >able to use /home without any complaints.  Now I beginning to
> >experiment again with other distros, and I can't mount and use
> >/home successfully, because the user numbers don't match.
> >
> >For example, I created a LRs-linux 3.0 system (automated version of
> >LFS).  I've toyed with /etc/group and deleted and readded the
> >collins user several times, but I can't get LRs-linux to use the
> >same user number as I was on gentoo, so of course my collins user
> >on LRs can't use my /home files.
> >
> >I'm sure I will encounter the same problem with Redhat which I am
> >downloading now.
> >
> >Can anyone help?
> >
> >TIA,
> >  
> >
> your uid and gid needs to be the same across distros..
> 
> probably each distro creates its own uid for your shared user...
> 

That much I know, but I can't seem to convice LRs to use the same
values.

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